greenline

present singular third person greenlines · participle present greenlining · participle past greenlined · past greenlined

1. transitiveTo ease access to services to residents in specific areas, particularly by designating such areas as suitable for real-estate lending and property insurance.

   But ABN-AMRO redlined some small areas in largely yellowlined zip code areas, and greenlined some small areas in largely redlined areas.

   2011, Manuel B. Aalbers, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets

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   Bankers, who must fight to stay even with inflation and face an uneven credit supply (even many "greenlined"' areas didn't get loans during the recession of 1974-1975)

   1964, The Bankers Magazine, volume 162, page 47

   If the new residents, especially the most recent arrivals, are less tolerant of lower or working-class behavior, these tensions may become serious. Banks begin to greenline the area, looking for spatial patterns of reinvestment

   2013, Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly, Gentrification, page 32

   Antonyms: redline